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Leaving Blythe River
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Ethan and his mother escape an abusive home and start a new life in a remote cabin, but their past catches up with them.
New York Times, bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with an unforgettable story of courage., Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe ... (Goodreads)
Allie and Bea
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
An unlikely duo, a senior citizen and a teenage runaway, embark on a road trip and find friendship, family, and hope.
An Amazon Charts bestseller., Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only ... (Barnes & Noble)
Walk Me Home
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
A heartwarming story of two unlikely friends, a young girl and an elderly man, who embark on a journey of healing and self-discovery.
From, New York Times, bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a story of two young sisters who embark on a journey across the American Southwest to uncover what it really means to be a family. ... (Goodreads)
The Whiskey Sea
by Ann Howard Creel
A young woman in the 1920s navigates the dangerous world of rum-running and smuggling on the East Coast.
Running rum during Prohibition, she’ll risk her life—and her heart., Motherless and destitute, Frieda Hope is determined to make a better life for herself and her sister, Bea. The girls are taken in ... (Barnes & Noble)
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
A story of two women's intertwined lives, spanning generations and crossing continents.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller “A lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of America’s history. Beautiful.”—Ann Packer Moving ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Keeper of Lost Things
by Ruth Hogan
A story of finding solace and connection through lost memories and objects.
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold ... (Goodreads)
Sisters One, Two, Three
by Nancy Star
A family drama about a woman who must confront her past and secrets when her estranged sister returns home.
After a tragic accident on Martha’s Vineyard, keeping secrets becomes a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked away, the sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi keeps ... (Barnes & Noble)
We Are All Welcome Here
by Elizabeth Berg
A mother and daughter navigate life in a small Mississippi town, with the help of a paralyzed caregiver.
Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters' hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. ... (Goodreads)
The Perfect Son
by Barbara Claypole White
A mother struggles to understand and help her son with OCD while dealing with her own past.
From a distance, Felix Fitzwilliam, the son of an old English family, is a good husband and father. But, obsessed with order and routine, he’s a prisoner to perfection. Disengaged from the emotional ... (Barnes & Noble)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt
A young girl's journey of grief and healing as she discovers the secrets of her beloved uncle's life.
June Elbus is a 14-year-old girl living in Westchester in 1986. She is in love with her gay uncle, Finn Weiss, a fact she is scared to admit even to herself. Finn is dying of AIDS. Being a ... (Wikipedia)
The Light of the Fireflies
by Paul Pen
A family lives in a basement, hiding from the outside world. The story unfolds as secrets are revealed.
A haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. ... (Goodreads)
What We Keep
by Elizabeth Berg
A mother and daughter's relationship is explored through the discovery of a long-hidden family secret.
Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon , a ... (Goodreads)
The Night Bird
by Brian Freeman
A serial killer is on the loose in San Francisco, and a psychiatrist must use her unique abilities to catch him before he strikes again.
What if you had to relive your most terrifying memory…over and over? A detective and a psychiatrist investigate in Thriller Award–winning author Brian Freeman’s gripping psychological novel., ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Beggar King
by Oliver Pötzsch
A historical fiction novel set in medieval Bavaria, following the journey of a beggar boy who becomes a king.
1662: Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of a village in the Alps, receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. ... (Goodreads)
Harvesting the Heart
by Jodi Picoult
A woman's exploration of her past and present in search of true love and family.
From the #1, New York Times, Bestselling author of, Leaving Time , Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in ... (Goodreads)
The Stolen Marriage
by Diane Chamberlain
A small-town woman faces societal pressure to make a difficult choice between family and her own dreams.
Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists,, The Stolen Marriage, is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain ... (Barnes & Noble)
Idaho
by Emily Ruskovich
A haunting story of a family tragedy, told through the perspectives of different characters and across different timelines.
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the ... (Goodreads)
The Address
by Fiona Davis
A historical fiction novel that explores the secrets and scandals of The Dakota, a famous New York City apartment building.
After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she’d make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore ... (Goodreads)
The Samurai's Garden
by Gail Tsukiyama
A young man's journey of healing in a remote Japanese village.
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent ... (Goodreads)
The Dark Monk
by Oliver Pötzsch
A thrilling murder mystery set in 17th century Bavaria.
1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors on the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps ... (Goodreads)
Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
A small-town hockey team and its community grapple with the consequences of a traumatic event.
Peter Andersson, in his forties, is the general manager of the ice hockey club in Beartown, a small town located somewhere in Sweden. Peter grew up in Beartown and was a junior hockey star. He went ... (Wikipedia)
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark T. Sullivan
True story of a young Italian man's courage and heroism during WWII.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero,, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours., Pino ... (Goodreads)
When Crickets Cry
by Charles Martin
A man's journey of redemption, reconciling his past and finding hope for his future.
A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts. It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited ... (Goodreads)
Home
by Harlan Coben
An investigation into the disappearance of a teenage girl, uncovering a web of secrets.
After a year in hiding, Win contacts Myron to say he has located Patrick Moore, now 16, one of two boys kidnapped ten years ago from the home of Brooke Baldwin, Win's cousin. The other six-year old ... (Wikipedia)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
by Bryn Greenwood
A story of forbidden love, testing the boundaries of morality and redemption.
- A, New York Times, and, USA Today, bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016 A beautiful and provocative love story between two ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Hangman's Daughter
by Oliver Pötzsch
In 17th century Bavaria, a hangman and a physician's daughter team up to solve a series of murders.
Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman’s son—except that ... (Goodreads)
The Butterfly Garden
by Dot Hutchison
A young woman's struggle to escape captivity after being imprisoned in a garden of butterflies.
An Amazon Charts bestseller., Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been ... (Barnes & Noble)
I've Got Your Number
by Sophie Kinsella
A young woman's chaotic life is turned upside-down when she finds a stranger's lost phone.
Poppy Wyatt loses her engagement ring, which has been in her fiancé's family for three generations, on the day that his parents arrive from the US and in the following panic, she also ends up losing ... (Wikipedia)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
A woman's search for identity in the face of cultural expectations and familial secrets.
In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for ... (Goodreads)
Windfall
by Jennifer E. Smith
A teenage girl wins the lottery and must navigate newfound wealth and its impact on her relationships.
Let luck find you. Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she’s been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth ... (Goodreads)
